On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:24:58AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:12 AM, pk <pete...@coolmail.se> wrote: > > On 2012-06-18 08:16, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > > > >> I plugged two 4TB SATA drives in and the BIOS hangs trying to display the > >> disk size. > >>Whether it is the size itself, or from using 4K blocks, I do not know. > > > > This is a bit confusing. Do you mean to say that these are 4TB internal > > drives (3.5")? I can't find any manufacturer that manufactures this size > > (yet)... Or is it 2x 2TB harddrives in a USB3 enclosure? There are > > plenty of those it seems from Seagate, Western digital etc... > > http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST4000DX000/dp/B005WX3NEU/ > > "Seagate Barracuda 7200 4 TB 7200RPM SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 128MB Cache > 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive" > > It does bring to mind a question...when I went to put SATAII drives in > a SATA box, I needed to flip a jumper on the drive so that it would > operate at 1.5Gb/s instead of 3Gb/s. Felix, did you follow any > analogous steps for the 4TB drives?
I don't remember seeing any jumpers at all. I'll take another look when I get back there. > (Cripes, that's a lot of data. One drive, bigger than any of my > aggregate volumes.) I remember buying a 330MB ATA drive for $300 and being amazed it was less than $1/MB. These were $299 at Fry's, 10 cents per GB. Don't know what I'll do with 8TB but I am sure it will fill up sooner rather than later. If nothing else, I'll snapshot the system files every night and take a year to fill it up. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o